The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-06
GOOD CONNECTICUT CIDER.
A TREMENDOUS CROP OF APPLEs 10
MAKE iT OF THIS YEAR.

1REMENDOUB CHOP OE AffAh1 Az
MAKE IT OF THIS YEAR
ssu.o or the Fa.ess cider Drinkers OF shs
Coed Ola Days Before Beer Game late
vesue-Natss. welis's short Supply.
NonwIcH, Nov. 5.--Connecticut Ia trying
to stow away one OF the biggest apple crops
II ever raised. and the prospect OF unlimited
applejack orchard tea las cider is called In
the country towns) and apple sauce next win
ter 10 very rosy one. There arc too MANI
apples. Hundreds OF bushels OF choice fruit
have been fed to stock and thousands moro
boon left to rot under the trees. Barrels are
Just about as valuable empty as they are with
apples In them. Fine fruit is sold at twcnty
cents bushel or fifty cents q barrel Tho sup'
ply of barrels has been exhausted, and the
farmers are grinding the crop into cider All
the teams In the State are not equal TO the
task ofcartlng the apples to tho mills, althouRh
an endless procession OF apple carts logs over
the hills along tho country roads all dar and
until late ut night. whllo the mills have orders
for grinding for weeks ahead.
Most OF the mills arc OF tho old-fashioned
kind. like coffee grinder. entirely OF wood
The apples arc poured through hopper upon
wooden crushers, that revolve just as SLOWLY
as q allow country horse, attached to crooked,
weather. beaten beam that turns It's app aratus.
can walk around In circle without falling
down through loss OF momentum. By long
and bitter experience eider-mill horse has.
learned that he never gets anywhere by walk
ing around cider mill. and becomes an q.
capacity Of melt
low wooden pl atiorm the. cheese" COM
posed Of alternate layers 81 Straw and the
ssS Snd TIVE two ron Is
tho cross beam in the single frame that rises
abSve the platform and press oHs tn the Jufs
platform, into q tub beneath, Cider making 4
ow work by this which Is the same me
an saer so os
Further back among the hills the mill e the
oheerier is the scene, and the more marvellous
ec s tn ss d 5SS q Ss s,
red and ye9ST Ppe mot ssr shs
whq drank cider ty or sxsy year, ago ~
swlliin beer nowadays an it's Bout as bsa az
s rnsa
fos an h ss s s s
drank 4 ali tier time. an yer never hssrd Of
that didn. put up from fifteen ter thirty 6arFl
down siiek's yer please, an Their warnt nobody
drunk. Some drank more'n Others, Of course
There allus Will be such; but nobody was huEe
Thers was Nathan Wells Ct Salem he allua,
drink T. But
forty barrl, an long In haydn time he got out
Sf Ss wen: Sssl e fSs S
aint ct drink Q, cider in ther cellar I'm
down last %
never catch me in such serape sgshin Tbs
ase er,sd h ths s0 s saa IL t." S
ss tasa Is h:e
Nathan cud. an she cud lift as much as any
sIas s s The ss a .ss % sn
Sap1 ns ef hsr sF ahi Up sRe
HHEs s her ss II
lived gut his day, oud take up 2 bee5 cask
sVer hear e 3 onsa ' No. sir: Their blood q
turns ter water. but cider makes good BLOOD.
g 81, ha5n xaa
lust an paE d1s wssk sss Keep n
eut thef biggest swath in the ssns.:iust seysa
foot Of q clip, five feet o scythe an two foot q
esst e eSss .s s1s stss es
e
500; Thei's the ki1d 3, men they used ter Esiss
raise none on 'em to-day on beer"
The Connecticut farmer has long maintained
and notsisSs.andlns ri the lament
the decadence Of the habit. there are not few
IN ns 81 ss
ca fluid each isll Is dla Nathan Wells The,
barrels OF 1t in his cellar, and he said to tho
writer A;s few days ago. Drink IT. Of course
bet Niil g.. Pso:sy, VII sS9SfS,Htsd VII .S
At at this tine. ROCKY, Sushy' NoSth stOn:
ington is another hard cider drinking town
st s ss es Sss
s9op II sse yhS
sons The
to " step round tew the other side. Of the
aseer nsss
asks man 70 take anything less than pitch-
to BE- ae aH IN t6e
..ss sss rJsS ssa Il &:
., the os sSHhesy the The Sh stS ERs
Seklnd tss rail- fence at BunEsr Hi It Was
daring officer who penetrated into that region
lar business bent was likely to rstu m from
that town wearing q tar-and- feather dusteI
over his other apparel 1t is among the North
stoningt ten hills that the appelatiSn "orehard
an open question whether the name originated
In the fancy. OF the ancient genius Of that town
or Of Fairfield or Litchfleld county.
1t puzzles the Connecticut farmers to 40.
count for the excessive Weld OF apples this sea.
son, as 1887 10 an Off Year" the "even years.
being the spple,,producing years. curious
explanation ID given by one agricultural OBJ
in which there was frost In each month, fairly
reversed the old rule. Frosts In May and June
In that year killed most Of the fruit buds OF
for failure Of the crop that season By bearing
next year. On some trees the frost Killed only